“But don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.”

Saturday, September 12, 2020

Last night I started watching a series on Netflix. It’s called “The Gift” and it takes place in present day Turkey. It is about the resurgence of the feminine in a patriarchal culture in which women can no longer remain pregnant without dying from a disease.

As I ponder the need for a paradigm shift and emerge from Covid-19 in this election year, I am wondering why we, as women, are not being more vocal about the violence in our cities?

In my view, one of the main components of a paradigm shift is a blending of the masculine and feminine elements of our personalities. Traditionally, the feminine represents the non-violent, life-giving force. We, as women, must find our collective voice and demand of our political leaders that the violence in our cities stops. It is destroying the most vulnerable who live there and threatens to spread to the entire nation. If our “leaders” continue to sit back and let their cities implode, then we must vote them out. This seems to be a basic prerequisite before going forward to create new thought forms to save our nation. NO VIOLENCE!

We need to integrate more feminine values into our society such as appreciation and care of nature and “mother earth”, focus on spirituality, and care of the vulnerable. At the same time, I am concerned about the principles from our American Revolution becoming extinct as “group think” and “hive mentality” is surfacing. The “baby vs. the bath water” is our right to free speech vs. political correctness. It is diversity of thought vs canceling of speakers on college campuses that represent the “other view”. It is the right to self-determination vs the “cancel culture.”

True diversity goes beyond skin color or culture. Diversity of thought trumps them all. Can we integrate our right to self-determination with the mindset of “free stuff for all” without earning the privilege?

Kabbalah urges us to shift from the “1%” dimensional thinking (the material world) to the “99%” (light force of the Creator). As we begin to share the “light force” of the Creator, the chains of bondage to the victim mentality are broken. We become Creators of our own destiny.

“Where your thought is, is precisely where you are–all of yourself is there.”

–Eighteenth-century Rabbi Yisro’el Ba’al Shem Tov, quoted in Mei Ha’Shi’lo’ach, Vol. 1, beginning

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